The Indian Action Committee (IAC) wishes to congratulate Dr Lomarsh Roopnarine, PhD, Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History at the Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA, for having become a co-winner of the Caribbean Studies Association Gordon K. & Sybil Lewis Book Award 2018 for his publication titled ‘The Indian Caribbean: Migration and Identity in the Diaspora (2018)’.

The IAC has noticed that a total of 31 books were judged for this award and Dr Roopnarine book shared it with Katherine Zien’s ‘Sovereign Acts: performing race, space and belonging in Panama and the Panama Canal Zone’.

The IAC understands that Dr Roopnarine, a Berbician, obtained his secondary education at Skeldon Line Path Secondary School in Administrative Region No. 6 and his BA, MA and PhD all University at Albany, State University of New York.

The IAC has noted that the committee chaired by Professor Anton Allahar wrote that Dr Roopnarine’s ‘The Indian Caribbean: Migration and Identity in the Diaspora (2018)’ makes an important contribution to an understanding of the arrival settlement, and eventual intra-and- extra-regional movement of people of Indo-Caribbean descent addressing the key question areas of Caribbean scholarship and identifying relevant theory, methods, and history and also including several countries within the Caribbean and Caribbean Diasporas outside the region.

The IAC welcomes this publication and is looking forward to future work from this renowned researcher.